Russian trolls and bots focused on controversial topics in an effort to stoke political division on an enormous scale – and it hasn’t stopped,experts sayFor the past year, the world has reeled over escalating reports of how Russia “hacked” the 2016 US presidential election, and by stealing emails from Democrats,attacking voter registration lists and voting machines and running a social media shell game. Such is the focus on Russian meddling that congressional investigators are increasingly aggressive in asking the broad tech companies to account for how their platforms became the staging grounds for an attack on American democracy. Early next month that scrutiny will intensify, with executives from Facebook, and Google and Twitter formally invited to appear before the House intelligence committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Related: Facebook must 'follow the money' to uncover extent of Russian meddling | Diana Pilipenko Things happened on our platform that shouldn’t possess happenedThere’s some really intricate maneuvering going on Related: So,sign Zuckerberg wants to repent for Facebook's sins? He can start here | Ellen P Goodman Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com